Jan. 28, 2016 Noctor shared insights into the online world's affect on child development that provoked a lively discussion after his lecture. Webster Geneva filled the house for a guest lecture, "Sexualisation in an Online World," by Colman Noctor, a child and adolescent psychoanalytical psychotherapist. The talk explored the impact of increased access to sexualised material for children and young >>>

ABU DHABI // There is no turning back for Dr Britta Lang, who gave up her dream of caring for animals to carve out a career in traffic psychology, and understanding how human beings perceive, process and interact in traffic and what can be done to keep them safe.“When I was a kid, I always wanted to be a vet,” she said.After completing her schooling, she undertook voluntary service for a year. That led her to discover that she “was really interested in people and how we think and tick as humans”, she said. Like many other students in Germany, she took a part-time job to finance her degree >>>

A major research programme aimed at exploring the impact of cyber crime on small and medium-sized businesses in the East Midlands has been launched.The two-year initiative will be led by researchers from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU)’s Psychology department, as part of the East Midlands Police Academic Partnership (EMPAC).The consortium, which includes East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire), East Midlands Police and local cyber security experts, will explore how risky behaviours by employees can impact attitudes towards cybercrime.It is hoped that a better >>>

New York, Jan 28: Self-sacrificial behaviours like those seen in honeybees and ants may hold the key to find out whether human suicides have evolutionary roots, reveals a study.Thomas Joiner, professor of psychology at the Florida State University, led a team of researchers to examine scientific knowledge and drawing parallels between suicide in humans and the self-sacrificial behaviours of colony-like -- or eusocial -- species such as shrimp, mole rats and insects.The researchers theorised that humans exhibit the characteristics of eusocial species such as relying on multi-generational and cooperative >>>

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse University (SU) announced that Lawrence J. Lewandowski, professor and co-director of clinical training in the school psychology program, has been appointed interim chairman of the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. He takes over for Peter Vanable, who has been named interim dean of the Graduate School and the university’s interim VP for research, SU said in a news release. Lewandowski’s appointment took effect in January. It is expected to last about a year and a half. Lewandowski specializes in school psychology and clinical >>>

Behavioural scientists use university students by the thousands as cheap subjects in experiments on everything from kindness to strangers and happiness to brainwave patterns and short-term memory.But psychologists are experiencing a crisis of confidence owing to the long-running practice of using students as representatives of the human race. The truth is these human guinea pigs have little in common with the rest of humanity.“We study North American undergrads because they are convenient, but it’s easy to forget about the limitations of the results,� said Steven Heine, a psychologist >>>

For most students, hands-on research is the catalyst they need to help them land their dream job, with Rutgers' doctoral psychology program offering students more opportunities than most.The 2015 edition of “Best PhD Programs in Clinical Psychology" named Rutgers one of the best in the country, according to the Best Counseling Degrees website.  The psychology program is a part of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, said Stanley Messer, dean of the school.Students who wish to pursue a clinical job attend the school, while students who want to study >>>

Neurobonkers by Simon Oxenham 2 minutes ago It’s reasonable to expect the police to know the basic facts about psychology that are vital to properly doing their job, but according to a recent study published in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology which tested a small sample of British police officers, many of them don’t. The researchers found that the police didn’t fare any better than the average man on >>>

January 27, 2016 New ASU psychology assistant professor Aktipis studies sharing systems around the world through Human Generosity Project Why help someone when you’ll receive nothing in return? How have groups of people cooperating together ensured group survival? These questions lie at the roots of the work of a new Arizona State University professor’s work. Athena Aktipis, an assistant professor in the Department of PsychologyThe Department of Psychology is an academic unit of ASU's College >>>